291 examples of clods in sentences

I search to find thee Around the knoll that thy home would be Where thou did'st hover, my fairy lover, The clods will cover and comfort me.

" Bill ran thumping away over the clods.

Tussocks, innumerable clods and crumbs of vivid green, speckled all the nearer water.

He lurched ashore, his feet caked with enormous clods as of melting chocolate.

Your largest stretches of land, what you call your big estates, are mere clods of soil where the few cattle that one sees look to me like lost ants.

The poor sleeper beneath could not hear it, it is true; his slumber, henceforth, was sound; the full tide of human population pressing fast beside the spot where he lay buried, should never wake him more: no human sorrow should rack his breast, no dream disturb his repose; yet cold, changed, and senseless as he was, the first sound of the falling clods jarred strange and harsh upon my ear, as if it must perforce awake him.

A long drouth burned the fields; seed rotted under the clods; the cattle moaned in the barren and dried-up pastures; while locusts devoured what the drouth had spared.

They come and stand beside my oak, and the oak passes solemn judgment; they tread my furrows and the clods give silent evidence; they touch the green blades of my corn, the corn whispers its sure conclusions.

Come in, friend, and sit here on these clods: we will sweeten the evening with fine words.

This vermine breedeth or ingendereth at the time of corne being ripe, and the corne beyng had away, in the clods of the same ground do the husbandmen find the nestes, or, as I may rather terme them, cases of the egges, of the same vermine.

The lake, by which we had travelled for some time, ended in a river, which we passed by a bridge, and came to another glen, with a collection of huts, called Auknashealds; the huts were, generally, built of clods of earth, held together by the intertexture of vegetable fibres, of which earth there are great levels in Scotland, which they call mosses.

What credit to your yeomen that they have read more books than our clods have, while they can earn more in four hours than our poor fellows in twelve?

The sound of the murmuring voices passed suddenly from confused dullness to a sharp clearer-edged speech, telling Ainsley, as plainly as if he could see, that the speaker had risen from behind the sound-deadening ridge of earth and was looking clear over its top, Ainsley lay as still as one of the clods of earth about him, lay scarcely daring to breathe, and with his skin pringling.

What wonder if the Indian shrinks with unspeakable horror from the thought of burying his friend's soul!of pressing and ramming down with pitiless clods that inner something which once took such delight in the sweet light of the sun!

His neighbors vowed that sir John should die, so they hired ruffians to "plough him with ploughs and bury him;" this they did, and afterwards "combed him with harrows and thrust clods on his head," but did not kill him.

Rough stirring of the clods would kill them; excess of rain or drought would be likewise fatal; and a choking growth of grass would altogether devastate the field.

The parted lips had closed with the passing smile yet upon them, the eye had ceased to roll, that little form was cold and motionless as the clods of the valley, life had ebbed away, the mysterious link that bound the soul to the body was broken; the spirit had departed; many witnessed the expiring struggle, but none saw the spirit as it took its flight from its clay tenement; yet it had gone with thee over yon dark stream.

Thou who on earth wast named Nicholas There be dull clods who doubt thy magic power To tour the sleeping world in half-an-hour, And pop down all the chimneys as you pass With woolly lambs and dolls of frabjous size For grubby hands and wonder-laden eyes.

I have built it out of the clods that the world has hurled at me, and have preserved enough vitality to laugh at it all.

Rey was speaking, leaning forward in his chair, and heaping words upon her like clods upon a corpse: "...

About the Kalends of February harrow it thoroughly, remove all the stones and break up the clods.

And with that the Lubber Fiend disappeared in a final avalanche of brick-dust and clay clods.

Forthwith the ideal devourer of crops and herbs not only loses his appetite, but arising, smacks the earth with a hoe till the clods fly and the fields laugh with harvest.

In "Venetia," hint and example were given of working the great ores that lie in the fields about us; and when Elizabeth Sheppard in turn took up the divining-rod, it sought no clods of baser metal, but gold-veined masses of crystal and the clear currents of pure water-streams;beneath her compelling power, MendelssohnBeethovenShelleylived again and forever.

The same is possible to no other class of artists: even the scholar, buried in his profound studies, must descend from his abstraction; the poet, the painter, cannot share it: for the latter, however much he clubs and cliques, is seldom sufficiently dispossessed of himself; and the other, though he strike out of his heat poems as immortal as stars, may yet live among clods and feel no thrill returning on himself.

291 examples of  clods  in sentences